Theory of ReligionZone Books, 1989 - 126 páginas Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No other work of Bataille’s, and perhaps no other work anywhere since Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has managed to draw so incisively the links between man’s religious and economic activities. |
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... profane . But if one considers a dominant movement of reflective thought , the divine appears linked to purity , the profane to impurity . In this way a shift is effected starting from the premise that divine immanence is dangerous ...
... profane world and the unleashing of divine forces - and seem less sacred in comparison with the dark deities . This early shift sets the stage for a decisive change . Reflective thought defines moral rules ; it prescribes uni- versally ...
... profane world , the principles of reason and morality . The sacred is itself divided : the dark and malefic sacred is opposed to the white and beneficent sacred and the deities that partake of the one or the other are neither rational ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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